Assign students to designated iPad in cart to aid in the care of iPads, and allow for personalization of learning device. Students are responsible for charging etc.
(here's a planner to help you organize your lesson plan) or are you prepared to allow kids to be more in control of the learning? If so, some ideas are proposed below:
Redesign Student jobs:Students are in control of their own learning.
Put PDF files into evernote, dropbox or Books to get instructions, readings, etc to student’s iPads or create a blog with daily instructions.
Organize apps into folders by student jobs as listed below:
1.Researcher 3 students looking for information Browsers/ search engines other than Google: One of the regular jobs on the Digital Learning Farm is that of official researcher, a student who sits with a computer or smartphone connected to the web ready to look up information on the fly as the class needs. Snapify, a handy Chrome extension, will make the job of the official researcher that much easier. Users highlight a word or click on an image marker and click "Snap It" Snapify then opens a search box with results from the main search engines such as Google, Twitter, Wikipedia, Google News and Google Maps. @braddo
Apps for the Research Process
As a Gathering Tool (be sure to bring a plastic bag for rainy-day field studies!):
Notebooks ($8.99)- Collate all of your PDFs, markup, mashup with Safari, organize and import/export
Note Taker HD($4.99)- Take handwritten notes and sketch will even shrink to fit writing for better look
SoundNote ($4.99)- Great way to take notes, sketch, and record audio
2.Scribe
3 students taking notes
Apps for notetaking:
Audiotorium – recording notetaking for students who struggle with notetaking
Notes posted on a shared document that all students can access and teacher can read.
uPad - Does not export to Drop box at this time.
As an Idea Development Tool:
Corkulous ($4.99)- provides a corkboard for tasks, notes and images for arranging and sharing
iThoughtsHD($7.99)- O’Reilly say’s you can’t beat this mindmapping app
Popplet(Free/$4.99)- Quickly capture, sort, and share your ideas
As a Reading and Browsing Tool:
Flipboard($4.99)- Super-fast way to flip through news, Twitter and Facebook in a magazine-style output
GoodReader($4.99)- Fast and works with all kinds of files and when other apps can’t do the job
Instapaper ($4.99)- Great for reading web pages and long articles at a later time offline and w/o clutter
Papers($14.99)- lets you find, download, file and tag and create a personal library of science
Pulse(Free)- Apps Store Hall of Fame for making reading news fun and engaging
As a Research Dissemination Tool:
Osfoora HD($3.99)- Fast and slick Twitter client for your iPad
WordPress(Free)- Built for the iPad, makes managing your blog a breeze
3.Create
Create a video, audio recording, poster, timeline, keynote, essay etc demonstrating knowledge.
Students give comments. Improve on each other’s projects prior to posting.
Giving students choice of how to express ideas to differentiate and accommodate for learning styles.
4.Share
Post projects on the web so students are writing for a global audience and not just handing in work to an audience of one, the teacher.
www.Posterous.com
Create ePubs or electronic books that other students can sign out onto a mobile device at the library.
5. Feedback/ Assess
Allow for feedback from the learning community as well as teacher. Students also self assess and post their learning to a blog so that they have a running record and eportfolio of their growth in learning.
Video blog. Written reflection, allow for differentiation
Flipped Classroom
Teachers work alone or in pairs to create video tutorials
Use Camtasia, SnapzPro (Mac), Jing (free), iMovie, iPad built in camera, Screensharing apps (Screen Chomp,
Create tutorials on the topics that you know are the things that students find hardest to learn.
Post videos on a website, wiki so they can be viewed at home at a student’s own pace.
Students come to class with questions and are ready to apply the concepts learned in the video.
Pages on the iPad works with iCloud but what if you want to collaborate using another Cloud service like Dropbox, Google Docs or Box.net where your documents are already stored?
http://www.ipadcreative.com/blog/2012/2/25/how-to-use-pages-for-ipad-with-most-cloud-services.html
Assign students to designated iPad in cart to aid in the care of iPads, and allow for personalization of learning device. Students are responsible for charging etc.
Do you want to teach and keep existing structures
or are you prepared to allow kids to be more in control of the learning? If so, some ideas are proposed below:
Rethink teaching structures: Re teach and enrich:
http://www.edutopia.org/stw-differentiated-instruction-budget-assessment-video
Redesign Student jobs:Students are in control of their own learning.
Put PDF files into evernote, dropbox or Books to get instructions, readings, etc to student’s iPads or create a blog with daily instructions.
Organize apps into folders by student jobs as listed below:
1.Researcher
3 students looking for information
Browsers/ search engines other than Google:
One of the regular jobs on the Digital Learning Farm is that of official researcher, a student who sits with a computer or smartphone connected to the web ready to look up information on the fly as the class needs. Snapify, a handy Chrome extension, will make the job of the official researcher that much easier. Users highlight a word or click on an image marker and click "Snap It" Snapify then opens a search box with results from the main search engines such as Google, Twitter, Wikipedia, Google News and Google Maps. @braddo
Apps for the Research Process
As a Gathering Tool (be sure to bring a plastic bag for rainy-day field studies!):
Dropbox (Free)- Great way to move files around.
Evernote (Free)- Syncs well with all of your other devices
GoodReader ($4.99)- Fast and works with all kinds of files and when other apps can’t do the job
iAnnotate ($9.99)- Many say it is well worth the price for reading and marking up PDFs
Inkling (Free)- Great way to interact with textbooks
JotNot Signature ($4.99)- Sign and fill out forms easily
Notebooks ($8.99)- Collate all of your PDFs, markup, mashup with Safari, organize and import/export
Note Taker HD ($4.99)- Take handwritten notes and sketch will even shrink to fit writing for better look
SoundNote ($4.99)- Great way to take notes, sketch, and record audio
2.Scribe
3 students taking notes
Apps for notetaking:
Audiotorium – recording notetaking for students who struggle with notetaking
Notes posted on a shared document that all students can access and teacher can read.
uPad - Does not export to Drop box at this time.
As an Idea Development Tool:
Corkulous ($4.99)- provides a corkboard for tasks, notes and images for arranging and sharing
iThoughtsHD ($7.99)- O’Reilly say’s you can’t beat this mindmapping app
Popplet (Free/$4.99)- Quickly capture, sort, and share your ideas
As a Reading and Browsing Tool:
Flipboard ($4.99)- Super-fast way to flip through news, Twitter and Facebook in a magazine-style output
GoodReader ($4.99)- Fast and works with all kinds of files and when other apps can’t do the job
Instapaper ($4.99)- Great for reading web pages and long articles at a later time offline and w/o clutter
Papers ($14.99)- lets you find, download, file and tag and create a personal library of science
Pulse (Free)- Apps Store Hall of Fame for making reading news fun and engaging
As a Research Dissemination Tool:
Osfoora HD ($3.99)- Fast and slick Twitter client for your iPad
WordPress (Free)- Built for the iPad, makes managing your blog a breeze
Turn your iPad into a whiteboard to share ideas
http://www.splashtop.com/whiteboard
3.Create
Create a video, audio recording, poster, timeline, keynote, essay etc demonstrating knowledge.
Students give comments. Improve on each other’s projects prior to posting.
Giving students choice of how to express ideas to differentiate and accommodate for learning styles.
Turn blogs into a book
http://anthologize.org/
Instructions on how to create ePubs
http://www.touchuserguide.com/2011/01/19/how-to-make-your-own-epub-books-for-ibooks/
Demibooks is another way to make ibooks or ePubs
http://www.ipadcurriculum.com/
4.Share
Post projects on the web so students are writing for a global audience and not just handing in work to an audience of one, the teacher.
www.Posterous.com
Create ePubs or electronic books that other students can sign out onto a mobile device at the library.
5. Feedback/ Assess
Allow for feedback from the learning community as well as teacher. Students also self assess and post their learning to a blog so that they have a running record and eportfolio of their growth in learning.
Video blog. Written reflection, allow for differentiation
Flipped Classroom
Teachers work alone or in pairs to create video tutorials
Use Camtasia, SnapzPro (Mac), Jing (free), iMovie, iPad built in camera, Screensharing apps (Screen Chomp,
Create tutorials on the topics that you know are the things that students find hardest to learn.
Post videos on a website, wiki so they can be viewed at home at a student’s own pace.
Students come to class with questions and are ready to apply the concepts learned in the video.
Should you flip your classroom?
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/flipped-classroom-ramsey-musallam